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“So, for example, you cannot teach a child the meaning of the word create by asserting that God created everything, rather, you explain the word 'create' in terms of what the child does or sees others doing.” (LTREV :14 Feb 2013 9:16:35am)

LTREV, I don't believe I was suggesting teaching the concept “create” by asserting God. But once a child/someone has a concept of creation as being the making of new things wouldn't a curious person wonder and ask how the things of Nature and Nature itself came into being. Only an unthinking person could believe it just happened.

Why do you say I've been “taught a bad theory”? Is there a better one? Evolution theory does not include or replace Creation. It is merely a theory of change. At best it can be incorporated within the theory of Creation and help explain the Natural part of that ongoing process.

I don't believe in Creation because I “feel obligated to (any) social group" but because it is logical and makes sense. As the Romans said “Nothing comes from nothing (Latin: ex nihilo nihil fit)”.

Secular evolutionists and atheists may be happy to think that existence/life just happens out of nothing/nowhere but I'm not. I regard it as human regression rather than “human progress” to think that way. Maybe you could “consider the possibility that you have been taught badly”.